The City of Bauhinia, the main hall of the Grand Duke's Castle.
This was originally the place where the Grand Duke of Florence summoned his vassals to discuss state affairs. However, it has now become the place where the Holy Alliance and Schindler conduct diplomatic negotiations.
In the past six months, the diplomats of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Kingdom of Schindler have often quarreled with the ambassador of the Holy Alliance here. Some things are more important, but not many, they quarrel with each other, more often because of some trivial matters.
But this time it was different. They were talking about Earl Ecra and the fir collar.
Pudley's diplomatic ambassador, Simpson, after listening, "You Schindlers can't think of any other reason, can you? Don't you think that such an excuse is ridiculous?"
A young man sitting across from him is Alan, the ambassador of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Kingdom of Schindler.
At the beginning, after he persuaded Earl Waterman to surrender, split the Bull Territory from the Duchy of Florence and become an independent Marquis, he made a great contribution. Later, when the war subsided, he also took advantage of the opportunity to become the ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the City of Bauhinia, responsible for communicating with the diplomats of the Holy Alliance.
In the past six months, he has dealt with this guy named Simpson in front of him a lot, and he knows what kind of person he is. Therefore, it is not surprising to get such an answer.
Keeping a smile on his face, Allen said: "This is by no means an excuse, Ambassador Simpson, we have conclusive evidence to prove that Earl Ekla is indeed in collusion with the Church of the Damned, and it is precisely because of such evidence that we can He refused to support him becoming the Grand Duke of Florence, and when he was preparing a series of sabotage plans, he took the lead in trying to arrest him, but in the end, he was rescued by his accomplices in the Cursed Church."
Allen's words were swearing. Of course, part of this is true, and part of it is complete nonsense.
Schindler now does have evidence of Ekla's collusion with the Church of the Damned—the demons he encountered in the fir collar, and the dark wizards and warlocks detected by Firmino are proof. However, it would be pure nonsense to say that they knew this before, so they did not allow Ekla to inherit the duke position, and then started arresting him.
But it doesn't matter, after all, it has become a fact that that guy mixed up with the Church of the Damned, and Alan didn't mind, so he put this hat on Ekla's head a little earlier.
There was nothing wrong with the cap being put on, but Simpson wouldn't believe it. He said: "During the negotiations in the Silver City half a year ago, you used the curse of the church as an excuse for intimidation; now, you have linked Earl Ekla with the curse of the church, huh, do you think we are all fools? ?Who can't see, your Schindler people's plan? You don't allow Ekla, who is against you, to get the inheritance he should have, and instead support a fourteen-year-old girl, you want to support a puppet? Obviously, what are you talking about cursing the church?"
Allen said: "We do have evidence for this matter. General Palan's army has already fought against Ekla's cursed army at the border of the Fir Territory. There are traces of demons in the enemy's army. At the same time, now The fir collar is suffering from the corruption of the cursed church, where a powerful black wizard is tormenting the people of Florence. And your holy alliance, not only did not follow the agreement of the silver agreement, to work with us to maintain the peace and harmony of Florence. Tranquility, but aiding the evildoers!"
Simpson was furious: "It's ridiculous! What a devil, what a dark wizard, it's pure nonsense! It's you Schindlers who violated the peace agreement and plotted evil! Our Kingdom of Pudley has reached an agreement with the Kingdom of Victoria, 15,000 The soldiers are ready to go, and they will arrive at Fir Collar soon. I advise you, it is best to take back your little thoughts. The seat of the Grand Duke of Florence, no matter the reason or reason, should belong to the eldest son of the Grand Duke, Ekla Count's!"
"You are sending your own soldiers to death!"
"Ambassador Allen, you are wrong. You Schindlers are on the road of no return!"
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A 'communication' broke up unhappy.
The Pudri people, as well as the Holy Alliance, obviously don't trust Schindler's rhetoric at all. They decided that the Schindlers were lying—in fact, Alan himself would have thought he was lying if he had looked the other way.
But... Hell, although there were some lies in his words, he had basically told the other party the truth about the situation of the fir collar.
Still, he underestimated Simpson's stubbornness.
After leaving Bauhinia Castle, Allen immediately found Schindler's mage in the city.
"Immediately send a message to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom. The communication with the Holy Alliance failed, and they insisted on continuing to send troops."
"At the same time, immediately send a letter to Lieutenant General Paran. It is inevitable that the army of the Holy Alliance will be stationed in the fir collar. Let him be careful."
After arranging these, he found Brigadier General Chandler again.
This Brigadier General Chandler is a general under Palan. He has good personal strength and has fourteen fighter levels. At the same time, he was also the general who Palan stayed in the Bauhinia City and led the remaining 20,000 garrison army.
After communicating with Chandler, he took away hundreds of soldiers and brought Countess Parrott.
So, on the second day, that is, June 27th, Parrot officially succeeded the Duke of Florence at the Bauhinia Castle and became the country's first female Grand Duchess.
Immediately, Parrott—or Allen behind her, announced the news to the whole country in the name of the Duke of Florence, announcing the news of Parrott's succession, and slapped Ecra as Florentine. The traitors of Florence, the devil colluding with the Church of the Damned, called on the nobles, knights, and people of Florence to unite and defeat the rebel Ekla and the rebellious Fir collar.
Allen played the political card in this hand. Of course, he would not naively think that once Parrot succeeds to the throne, he will have the appeal to command the whole country. However, the position of the Grand Duke and the nominal leadership power must be held in his hands.
Ecra has already claimed to have inherited the Grand Duke's seat in the Earl of Fir. Schindler must also take action to launch a genuine Grand Duke to confront Ecra in politics.
It doesn't matter if you can't win the support of the Florentines, but at least you can't let too many people fall to Ekla's side.
As for the future situation in Florence, the most important thing is the outcome of the war.